{"id":235427,"date":"2025-10-23T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235427\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:18:09","slug":"nba-stars-and-mafia-among-more-than-30-arrested-in-illegal-gambling-crackdown-fbi-says-as-chauncey-billups-and-terry-rozier-arrested-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/235427\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA stars and mafia among more than 30 arrested in illegal gambling crackdown, FBI says, as Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier arrested &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendants hid behind complexity, money and influencepublished at 15:53 BST<\/p>\n<p>15:53 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New York City police commissioner Jessica Tisch says the defendants hid behind complexity, money and influence, believing it would shield them from accountability. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The first case is called &#8220;operation nothing but bet&#8221;, she says, saying players and associates allegedly used insider information to manipulate bets on major platforms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In some cases, players altered their performance or took themselves out of games to ensure those bets paid out, she says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She says that on 23 March 2023, Terry Rozier, then playing for the Hornets, allegedly let others close to him know that he planned to leave a game early with a supposed injury. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Using that information, members of the group allegedly placed bets which paid off tens of thousands of dollars in profits, she says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As the NBA season tips off, his career is already benched, not for injury but for integrity,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defendants hid behind complexity, money and influencepublished at 15:53 BST 15:53 BST New York City police commissioner Jessica&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-235427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}